Re: Enigma stuck at 2.4.9?

[E Nigma <enigma os2 ami com au>]

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 05:32, you wrote:
> Hi Wil,
> ????????I had been running 6.2 on the machine in my office until about 8 
weeks
> ago. ?I held my breath and did an "upgrade" using 7.2. ?I had read
> mandrake "horror stories" of 12-18 HOURS to do a simple upgrade, and
> feared the worst. ?Well, the upgrade took less than 1/2 an hour, was
> totally uneventful, and the only thing i had to reconfigure was printing
> and an update for OSS (free for upgrade) for sound!! ?It has worked
> flawlessly since!! Mike


You didn't mention whether the office machine's a server.

I'd reckon on a server being more difficult as
1. Apache will require reconfiguring. Addons may also need changes.
2. Sendmail will require reconfiguring, and that (done properly) requires one 
to read and digest some fairly turgid prose.
3. A server is likely to have third-party software such as IBM's DB2, 
Oracle's Oracle and that is likely to be tied to specific binaries (such as 
glibc). I have seen reports of difficulties installing DB2 to newer (at the 
time) versions of RHL.
4. Samba will need to be reconfigured.

And so on.




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